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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Reshape RAID5 to a RAID6 with more (smaller) devices
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:29:30 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110112122930.6a17440f@natsu> (raw)

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Hello!

I am considering to move my configuration in which I currently use two RAID5
arrays (3*2TB and 3*1TB) to one described in [1]. Specifically, make a 6*1TB
RAID6 plus 3*1TB RAID5 consisting of 2TB drives' "tails".

My question is: does mdadm support a simultaneous reshape, changing at once:
1) RAID5 to RAID6
2) number of devices from 3 to 6
3) individual device size from 2TB to 1TB

Note that the user-accessible space after this reshape does not change, and
remains at 4 TB. So is that supported? Will that require a backup file? Will
that proceed particularly inefficiently/slowly?

[1] http://www.linuxconfig.org/prouhd-raid-for-the-end-user

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With respect,
Roman

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-12  7:29 Roman Mamedov [this message]
2011-01-12  7:54 ` Reshape RAID5 to a RAID6 with more (smaller) devices NeilBrown

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